Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 16:30:16 +1000 From: "Young" <young@richardson.apana.org.au> To: "Cillian Sharkey" <cillian@baker.ie> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: adopt a newbie program Message-ID: <004e01bef11e$cbf50d20$857e03cb@jdy>
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>I've posted answers to people's questions here before, and more >often than not, I simply reply back with read such-and-such >a page of the FAQ/handbook etc.. <sigh> > Exactly what happens all too often .... however did you ever stop to think that while MAN's & HOWTO's might well be a valuable memory jogger for people that have had five or more years experience and feel comfortable with the terminology, 99% of the verbiage in most of the MAN's & HOWTO's is irrelevant to newbies. Who wants (or needs) to know there are 4,395 different switches when all you were looking for is something as basic as how one copies a file from here to there ?? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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